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Post by willywonka666 on May 1, 2024 9:00:03 GMT -5
No offense to Ax, but Crush was better by almost any metric. Crush had better looking strikes. Crush could do a decent looking sidekick. Crush was bigger, stronger, and could pull off power moves that Ax could not. Crush was younger, only a few years younger than Darsow. Crush was a better athlete and could do more impressive feats in the ring. I love OG Demolition, but there was nothing wrong with Crush except that he wasn't Ax, and that bothered people.I mean you're right - when you add a new member to a band or group, everyone typically hates them To play armchair QB, Smash should have turned on Ax and either formed a slightly different tag team or do like the Sith in Star Wars do, and build a process where Demolition have a war like mentality where when someone becomes weak, they are eliminated for someone better. When you add a 3rd guy and you start losing all the time, it will just come off as "less than" I have never thought of this, but yea, a Smash turn on Ax could have been great and a beatdown could be a good excuse to write Ax off tv a bit, maybe bring him back as a manager, but that might have been tricky to have a manager in facepaint (not counting Fuji) |
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Post by thecrusherwi on May 1, 2024 9:31:53 GMT -5
Crush had a great look and initially made Demolition seem more menacing. As a worker, I've never been much of a fan of Brian Adams. His offense always looked so stiff and awkward. But I thought the Smash and Crush Demolition probably had another year where they could have been used. They could have had proper feuds with the Rockers, Bushwhackers, a TV or PPV blowoff with LOD, and then maybe be used to get over Duggan and Slaugher as a team in the fall. They went from being in semi-main events with Warrior/LOD to being jobbed out as singles guys almost overnight. It was strange.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 1, 2024 14:55:55 GMT -5
Well, considering the first time I saw anything of WWF was Summerslam 90, I had just thought Demolition was a three-man team.
Blissfully unaware of just having Ax and Smash until I was allowed to rent VHS from previous PPV shows.
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Post by James Fabiano on May 1, 2024 15:09:02 GMT -5
Crush had a great look and initially made Demolition seem more menacing. As a worker, I've never been much of a fan of Brian Adams. His offense always looked so stiff and awkward. But I thought the Smash and Crush Demolition probably had another year where they could have been used. They could have had proper feuds with the Rockers, Bushwhackers, a TV or PPV blowoff with LOD, and then maybe be used to get over Duggan and Slaugher as a team in the fall. They went from being in semi-main events with Warrior/LOD to being jobbed out as singles guys almost overnight. It was strange. I guess it might be like what some of us tried to do as kids. When we didn't get the toy we wanted, we tried to make our own version with whatever we had at hand (crayons and paper, Legos, etc.) We forgot our own creation once we finally got the actual toy, though. Vince couldn't get the actual Road Warriors, so he made his own version. (I'll leave the debate as to whether they were BETTER than LOD to others for now...) Then he finally got what he wanted all along, and abandoned the makeshift LOD. |
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Post by Hit Girl on May 1, 2024 15:35:33 GMT -5
They had to do it. Ax was done.
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